Scratch one more name from the list of potential competitors for Brandon Weeden's job as starting quarterback with the Browns.

Matt Moore on Friday signed a two-year contract to stay with the Miami Dolphins, according to NFL.com. Earlier this week Joe Flacco signed a six-year, $120 million contract to stay with the Baltimore Ravens. Alex Smith is off the market as a trade acquisition because the 49ers have worked out a deal to send him to Kansas City for the Chiefs' second-round draft pick next month. The trade will be made official when the league year begins at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

About the only viable option remaining with NFL experience is Seahawks backup quarterback Matt Flynn. The Browns could decide to use the sixth pick in the draft on West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith or USC quarterback Matt Barkley, but CEO Joe Banner said he does not envision using the Browns' first pick on a quarterback.

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Flynn was a free agent last year after four seasons with the Packers and did not receive much attention from other teams. The Browns did not pursue him. He signed with the Seahawks and was beaten out by rookie Russell Wilson.

Head coach Rob Chudzinski has given a lukewarm endorsement of Weeden, who last year was 5-10 as a rookie. He is reserving judgment until the offseason program begins April 1. Chud has scheduled a three-day minicamp starting around April 15 so he can assess Weeden and other veterans on the field and in the class room before the draft.

"As coaches, a lot of time you look at tape and it tells a very small part of the story," Chudzinski said at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis last month. "Until you get out there, until you get in meetings with guys and you get a sense for them, and you start teaching the things you want done and how you want them done and then see those guys and how they react to them on the field, and then get him in situations ...

"Put him in situations that as a quarterback are important; the two-minute drills that you do in practice, and the third downs and the red zone and all those critical situations. That's where you really get a chance to see him and evaluate him based on what you're teaching them and what you're emphasizing."

Banner was around Weeden for about half the 2012 season. He did not spend time in meeting rooms with Weeden, but he has not given up on last year's 22nd overall pick. Team owner Jimmy Haslam III is the one who at the Super Bowl told reporters the Browns would find competition for Weeden. He did not say where that competition would come from.

"He obviously has a lot of redeeming qualities," Banner said in Indianapolis. "Most of the time -- although last year was an aberration -- you see big improvement from year one to year two in players who are going to become good players. He's in the window where you need to see the kind of development if he's going to be the long-term answer."

Banner was referring to the immediate success of Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III and Wilson when he said last season was an aberration.